Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Now we are looking at a two- to three- business-day process and the buyer may not like the numbers they get back.” For some buyers, surprisingly high insurance premiums are causing them to second-guess the property they have selected. “I There has also been an uptick in the strength and scale of natural disasters.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Buyers are really struggling.” Cincinnati is a great place to live,” said Julie Back , the executive sales vice president of Sibcy Cline Realtors. I think a lot of it has to do with there are just fewer houses available,” said Mark Meinhardt, a senior vice president at Sibcy Cline Realtors. Baby boomers are not moving.

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JULY 21, 2022

Retail housing market data from June showing early signs of a real estate slowdown was foreshadowed three months earlier in buyer behavior at foreclosure auctions. The downshift in buyer behavior at the foreclosure auction came two months before the downshift showed up in retail housing market data. That was up from 40% a year ago.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

A Kansas City jury has found the National Association of Realtors , HomeServices of America and Keller Williams guilty of colluding to inflate or maintain high commission rates through NAR’s Clear Cooperation Rule, in the Sitzer/Burnett buyer broker commission lawsuit. The defendants have been ordered to pay damages of $1.78

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The National Association of Realtors is facing yet another copycat commission lawsuit. At the center of the lawsuit is NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer’s brokers in order to list a property on a Realtor association affiliated MLS. 2, 2019, and Oct.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Like the other commission lawsuits, the Grace suit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list the property on the MLS. 8, 2019, and the present.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

8, 2019, and the present. Like the other commission lawsuits, the Grace suit takes aim at NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing agents to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker in order to list the property on the MLS. The National Association of REALTORS will respond to this complaint in court.”

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AUGUST 21, 2020

million, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on Friday. One sour note was a shortage of inventory that has plagued the market since 2019. month figure recorded in July 2019, he said. Properties remained on the market for an average of 22 days in July, down from 29 days in July 2019, the NAR report said.

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MAY 29, 2024

Northwest MLS , the largest multiple listing service in the Pacific Northwest, will not take part in the $418 million agreement reached by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in the Sitzer/Burnett case. Secret deals’ The NWMLS board of directors made the decision to opt out at its most recent meeting, the organization said Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Today, the National Association of Realtors reported a 2.5% But the bigger picture is this: We have had three consecutive months of more than 20% growth, year over year—and this is compared to the more robust sales in the second half of 2019. million in November 2019). million in November 2019). million in November.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At the center of the plaintiffs’ complaint is the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation policy, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyers’ brokers in order to list the property on the MLS. “In This would lead to competition among buyer brokers to offer lower commission rates.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

District Court in South Carolina, alleging that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Keller Williams colluded to artificially inflate agent commission rates, increasing costs for home sellers. “The effect of these rules is not simply that the seller must pay the buyer broker’s compensation,” the complaint states.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The suit also names a handful of local multiple listing services (MLSs), including Austin/Central Texas Realty Information Service, Central Texas Multiple Listing Service, Housing Realtors Information Service, and North Texas Real Estate Information Systems. 13, 2019, and the present and the plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial.

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APRIL 22, 2024

He said his company is focused on buyer-side agents, whose activity is expected by some to be impacted by the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) $418 million nationwide settlement of the commission lawsuits. The change would go into effect in mid-July 2024 if the settlement is approved by a judge.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Umpa sold his Ohio home with Redfin and his Maryland home with Compass , and the suit states that he “paid a substantial buyer-broker compensation,” in both transactions. Because this blanket offer must be made available to every buyer-broker using the MLS (i.e., 27, 2019, and the present.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

A new quarterly report from the National Association of Realtors revealed that median single-family home prices rose year over year in 96% of its measured markets in the second quarter. Yun said he doesn’t see home prices decreasing anytime soon, as low mortgage rates are attracting new buyers while there is record-low inventory.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2021

But recently, we’ve started to see buyers get cold feet. Two of my buyers just had their offers accepted because the sellers’ first buyers backed out. The market is still competitive, but buyers are more trepidatious than they were at the start of 2021, and less willing to pull out every stop in order to win.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

As anticipated by distressed property bidding behavior, median retail home prices increased on a year-over-year basis for three consecutive months, from July to September, following five consecutive months of year-over-year declines, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). was down from 59.2%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Less than three weeks out from the trial start date, plaintiffs in the Sitzer/Burnett buyer broker commission class action lawsuit filed a notice to withdraw three named plaintiffs. The two-page filing offered no explanation for the decision. The two-page filing offered no explanation for the decision.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2022

As the calendar has turned to May, and the Realtor Legislative Meetings have come to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on research that was released last month and throughout early 2022. These reports highlight the difference home buyers and potential home buyers have when embarking on the buying process.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Existing-home sales picked up in January as buyers took advantage of the lowest mortgage rates seen in several months. from December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million in January, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). million in January 2019.” Existing-home sales rose 3.1%

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

31, 2023, the Gibson lawsuit pits three Missouri home sellers, Don Gibson, Lauren Criss and John Meiners, against National Association of Realtors , Compass , eXp World Holdings , Redfin , Weichert Realtors , United Real Estate , Howard Hanna and Douglas Elliman. Its agents also offer buyer broker compensation.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

year over year, largely on the back of pent-up demand from buyers who were unable to strike deals during the spring, said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. “We gain compared with 2019. The seasonally-adjusted index measuring signed contracts was up 15.5% million, a 1.1%

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And, since a National Association of Realtors survey showed that 53% of buyers in 2019 used an agent that was either referred to them or was someone they used in the past, that means that about half of all buyers (47%) are available to any agent willing to compete for them. Friedman HW+ Columnist.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

In its proposed brief, CMLS writes that in its statement of interest, the DOJ is looking for “an injunction that prohibits offers of buyer broker compensation by MLS PIN participants.” Second, the trade group points out that the practice of sellers and listing brokers paying buyer brokers is lawful throughout MLS PIN’s service area.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As Candace Taylor writes in The Wall Street Journal , “These days, buyers eschew the large, ornate houses built in [previous] years in favor of smaller, more-modern looking alternatives.” Of builders surveyed, 44% say that buyers’ ability to qualify for a loan is one of the biggest obstacles for taking on a new project.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The new lawsuit, known as Gibson after its lead plaintiff, accuses the National Association of Realtors , Compass , eXp World Holdings , Redfin , Weichert Realtors , United Real Estate , Howard Hanna and Douglas Elliman , of conspiring to inflate real estate agent commissions. Who’s named? How big could this case be?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Similar to the other commission lawsuits, the latest two take aim at the National Association of Realtors’ Participation Rule, which requires the listing broker to make a blanket offer of compensation to the buyer’s broker to list the property on the MLS. 4, 2019 and the present. Both lawsuits are seeking class-action status.

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MARCH 28, 2024

The change enabled greater flexibility and choice for sellers when listing a property and gave buyers and buyers’ brokers a vehicle for negotiating for compensation when making an offer to purchase,“ NWMLS wrote in the filing. NWMLS counters that these rule changes increased transparency and removed the potential for steering.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2021

.” Homes for sale are still being snatched up quickly throughout the country, but a recent slowdown in bidding wars may signal some buyer fatigue in the housing market. New listings are also up 4% year over year, meaning more properties are hitting the housing market for buyers to bid on. in May and a peak of 74.1% million and 1.92

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report for September came in at an excellent beat of estimates at 6.29 Also, 2020-2021 will have more home sales from mortgage buyers than any single year from 2008-2019. This looks perfectly normal to me.

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JULY 25, 2024

Homebuyers as a cohort are getting older, with 2023 data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) showing that the typical first-time buyer last year was 35, while the average repeat buyer was 58. USA Today also cites some of its own reporting from 2019 that took aim at certain actors in the reverse mortgage industry.

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JUNE 10, 2024

The salary needed to buy a starter home, for instance, has nearly doubled since the start of 2019, according to data from Redfin. Recent data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) also showed that millennials recently surpassed baby boomers as the largest homebuying demographic.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Central to the complaint is NAR’s Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to make a blanket offer of compensation to buyer brokers in order to list a property on the MLS. “By By enforcing this mandate, the NAR establishes an anticompetitive market where sellers are coerced into subsidizing the buyer’s costs. “As

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MARCH 14, 2024

In the paper, the authors note the ongoing legal battle between the DOJ and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) over commissions, as well as the myriad of lawsuits and the jury verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett suit, in which the real estate industry was found liable for colluding to artificially inflate agent commissions. needs to change.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In a surprising twist, the National Association of Realtors has announced a change in how interprets its Participation Rule, which requires listing brokers to provide buyer brokers an offer of compensation in order to list on the multiple listing service (MLS). On Wednesday a U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In response, Bright MLS chief economist Lisa Sturtevant noted that while “declining rates are good for both buyers and sellers,“ rates are not yet low enough to alleviate the lock-in effect that has stopped many potential listings in their tracks. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported last week that pending sales declined by 8.5%

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